.... “Even if those 400,000 don’t come back, it won’t knock them out,” said one, adding that he still expected Ryanair to continue its phenomenal rate of growth, adding 30 planes a year, which the analyst said was “like creating several new airlines for anyone else”. So confident is O’Leary of recovering from this mess of his own making that he is not changing the airline’s full- and half-year profits guidance. ...
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. One of the UK’s largest recruitment firms is to tear up its 60-year-old structure and become a “social enterprise” with a pay cap and profit-sharing plan, in a move the family who own the company hope will inspire others businesses to follow suit. ...
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.... If there’s a path to labour organising, it’s really significant,” he says. “On the other hand, we modelled a 20% increase in unit labour costs as an estimation and that impacted Ryanair’s profitability by 12%. ...
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....Ending the partnership – which offers savings, credit cards and mortgages through the Post Office brand – and buying the Dublin-based bank’s Post Office assets would cost up to £2bn, according to research from Cass Business School on behalf of the Communication Workers Union. Doing this would help boost profits at the network, removing the need for government money in the long-run. ...
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....The world’s largest toy store chain said it had filed for Chapter 11 to restructure its debts and work out a sustainable path for its finances that would allow it to invest in long-term growth. The New Jersey-based company, which employs 64,000, said the vast majority of its 1,600 stores around the world were profitable, adding that its businesses outside North America, including the UK, were not affected. ...
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....Last year Pukka made a pre-tax loss of £24,000, down from a £233,000 loss the year before. Westwell said the company did not expect to become profitable for another few years but this was part of a five-year plan. ...
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....Demand for sports-led womenswear continues to drive sales at JD Sports Fashion as the company shrugs off fears of a fashion meltdown on the high street. The retail group, which owns Blacks, Millets, Size and Go Outdoors as well as the JD Sports chain, reported a 33% rise in pre-tax profits to £102. ...
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....In Mount Sassandra, farmers run away at the sight of visitors, aware that their business is illegal. But these farmers are not the ones earning the vast profits to be made from chocolate: many live in poverty, often exploited and underpaid for their crop. ...
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. The global success of 2017’s song of the summer, Despacito, together with sales of the TV series American Gods and the popularity of controversial book-turned-Netflix series 13 Reasons Why has helped drive record first-half profits at German media group Bertelsmann. ...
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.... At the grid scale, utilities can measure the benefits of storage and pay for it. As for the Aliso project, the first summer since installation is drawing to a close and the potential blackouts haven’t been an issue, says Dede Subakti, who directs operations-engineering services at the California Independent System Operator, a non-profit that oversees the flow of electricity through California’s grid. ...
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....”. Analysis by the Centre for Health and the Public Interest suggests PFI contracts – a way of financing large-scale infrastructure projects, including schools and hospitals, widely used under Conservative and Labour governments over the past two decades – have generated £831m in profits for private sector firms in the health sector over the past six years alone. ...
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....ON – with a model it says offers customers greater fairness and transparency. While the company will source its energy from the same wholesale market as the established suppliers, Pike and Sode say their offer to consumers is different: customers will automatically get shares in the company, as well as a portion of its earnings – the couple promises to redistribute 75% of profits as an annual rebate. ...
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....With the rising cost of mobiles – the new iPhone being a prime example – people are now holding on to their handsets for longer. Last month, Dixons Carphone warned of a steep fall in profits this year, citing the trend as one reason. ...
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.... As the British empire was gaining ascendancy, the Bank was sometimes seen as rapacious and gauche. David Ricardo wrote to John Stuart Mill in 1815: “I think the Bank an unnecessary establishment, getting rich by those profits which fairly belong to the public. ...
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....4% on Monday, which seems an overly gentle reaction to last Friday’s late shocker that up to 2,000 flights will be cancelled over the next six weeks. The direct short-term impact on Ryanair’s profits may be modest – the peak high-margin summer season is over – but the company’s chaotic handling of events suggests the tale is far from over. ...
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.... Members of the Kardashian family, who promote a range of products from “detox” tea to waist-training corsets to their tens of millions of followers, can reportedly command as much as $500,000 (£370,000) per post. But even lower-profile celebrities can make a profit from the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook. ...
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.... The AA arrived from the world of private equity, in this case CVC and Permira, and has continued the same aggressive financing model (with potential jackpots for executives, naturally) in the public arena. Most mature consumer-based companies might regard borrowings of two times trading profits as a tolerable upper limit. ...
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....In an interview with the Guardian, Slovenia’s prime minister, Miro Cerar, said he too believed the multinationals had been involved in misleading practices. “I believe sometimes you can clearly see the reasons for such unacceptable practices is simply to gain more profit,” he said. ...
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.... The main reason is simple: how could one possibly expect a bunch of rent-extracting enterprises with business models that are reminiscent of feudalism to resuscitate global capitalism and to establish a new New Deal that would constrain the greed of capitalists, many of whom also happen to be the investors behind these firms?. Data might seem infinite but there’s no reason to believe that the enormous profits made from it would simply smooth over the many contradictions of the current economic system. ...
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.... This found they would incur losses of £30bn over three years – about 20% of their consumer lending – and £10bn more than might have been expected after last year’s stress tests when Barclays and Lloyds incurred the largest losses from such lending. Shares in banks were knocked and Jasper Lawler, head of research at financial group LCG, said profits could be hit by the Bank sounding the alarm on rising debt levels. ...
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....United’s earning power from its global popularity, broadcasting, sponsorships and 76,000 capacity stadium far exceeds that of any other Premier League club; their income of £515m in 2015-16 was £123m more than that of the next highest-earning club, the Abu Dhabi-owned Manchester City. United’s pre-tax profit last year was £57m, while the cost of financing their debts was £25m. ...
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....The American Chamber of Commerce in Europe has warned that the EU’s plans to take more tax from technology giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon will damage the continent’s economic growth and could lead to a breakdown in cooperation with the US on global tax reform. The European commission, on the prompting of France and Germany, is seeking ways to capture a greater amount of tax from companies that exploit their lack of physical offices in a country to book their profits in low-tax states. ...

....Where is the money going?. Private companies that have built NHS hospitals using PFI deals have made pre-tax profits of £831m over the past six years, according to the Centre for Health and the Public Interest. ...

....”. Analysis by the Centre for Health and the Public Interest suggests PFI contracts – a way of financing large-scale infrastructure projects, including schools and hospitals, widely used under Conservative and Labour governments over the past two decades – have generated £831m in profits for private sector firms in the health sector over the past six years alone. ...

.... This found they would incur losses of £30bn over three years – about 20% of their consumer lending – and £10bn more than might have been expected after last year’s stress tests when Barclays and Lloyds incurred the largest losses from such lending. Shares in banks were knocked and Jasper Lawler, head of research at financial group LCG, said profits could be hit by the Bank sounding the alarm on rising debt levels. ...

....Another company with problems is construction and support services company Carillion. In July, it issued a profit warning, blaming a Brexit-related slowdown in orders, scrapped its dividend and said Richard Howson was stepping down as chief executive but would become chief operating officer. ...

....Apple growers welcomed the move, saying the frost ring damage was largely superficial with a minimal effect on the flesh. A spokesman for the British Fruit Growers’ Association said retailers’ rules had a big impact on grower’s profits and praised Tesco’s stance. ...

.... If there’s a path to labour organising, it’s really significant,” he says. “On the other hand, we modelled a 20% increase in unit labour costs as an estimation and that impacted Ryanair’s profitability by 12%. ...

.... “Even if those 400,000 don’t come back, it won’t knock them out,” said one, adding that he still expected Ryanair to continue its phenomenal rate of growth, adding 30 planes a year, which the analyst said was “like creating several new airlines for anyone else”. So confident is O’Leary of recovering from this mess of his own making that he is not changing the airline’s full- and half-year profits guidance. ...

.... Its website lists both Direct Line and RSA among its customers. Below a picture of a flooded landscape it says that it is “making risk more profitable” for the UK’s biggest home and motor insurer, and that the UK floods of 2007 were the main catalyst for a project it handled for the Direct Line subsidiary NIG. ...

....The company has faced severe criticism over its management of the two IRCs. This month, the Guardian revealed that both detention centres appeared to make larger profit margins than what was agreed with the Home Office. ...

....United’s earning power from its global popularity, broadcasting, sponsorships and 76,000 capacity stadium far exceeds that of any other Premier League club; their income of £515m in 2015-16 was £123m more than that of the next highest-earning club, the Abu Dhabi-owned Manchester City. United’s pre-tax profit last year was £57m, while the cost of financing their debts was £25m. ...

....The EU is pushing ahead with plans to rewrite tax rules for technology companies, aimed at increasing governments’ take from the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon. The European commission is looking at ways to capture tax from companies that may have no offices, shops or other physical presence in a country, but are accruing profits through large numbers of online users or customers. ...

.... HTC is a long-time partner of Google and manufactures the US firm’s latest Pixel smartphone. Google’s strategy of licensing Android for free and profiting from embedded services such as search and maps has made Android the dominant mobile operating system with 89% of the global market, according to IDC. ...

.... It just indicates Kingfisher’s ambition to run itself as a single company, rather than letting its nine European do-it-yourself businesses do their own thing. The promise from the chief executive, Véronique Laury, is that, by 2021, unification will yield annual profits £500m better than BAU (business as usual, obvious). ...

....Mitie Group may cut up to 480 jobs as it overhauls its cleaning and engineering divisions, saying the cost of its turnaround will be higher than expected. The provider of pest control, cleaning, security and healthcare services is restructuring after a string of profit warnings, which it has blamed on uncertainty surrounding Brexit and rising costs. ...

....“It would be quite a challenge to do it in the UK without a subsidy because there are facilities and trained workforces [elsewhere], so in the UK we get higher risk and higher costs. At the end of the day it has to be a profitable venture. ...

.... When the car is handed back after three years for resale, some customers have complained of being hit with charges for damage to the car or wear and tear that they thought were covered by the monthly payments and servicing. The suspicion is that car leasing firms are seeking ways to make extra profits from unsuspecting customers. ...

....The world’s largest toy store chain said it had filed for Chapter 11 to restructure its debts and work out a sustainable path for its finances that would allow it to invest in long-term growth. The New Jersey-based company, which employs 64,000, said the vast majority of its 1,600 stores around the world were profitable, adding that its businesses outside North America, including the UK, were not affected. ...

....4% on Monday, which seems an overly gentle reaction to last Friday’s late shocker that up to 2,000 flights will be cancelled over the next six weeks. The direct short-term impact on Ryanair’s profits may be modest – the peak high-margin summer season is over – but the company’s chaotic handling of events suggests the tale is far from over. ...

....KPMG donated the equivalent of 40m South African rand (£2. 2m) – the fees earned from Gupta company work from 2002 – to not-for-profit groups working in education and the anti-corruption sector. ...

....With the rising cost of mobiles – the new iPhone being a prime example – people are now holding on to their handsets for longer. Last month, Dixons Carphone warned of a steep fall in profits this year, citing the trend as one reason. ...

....Some of Toytown’s favourite characters are in trouble. The news that Toys R Us, the world’s biggest toy retailer, could be facing bankruptcy followed hot on the heels of the announcement from Lego, the world’s most profitable toy manufacturer, that the first half of this year had seen it suffer the first fall in global sales for more than a decade. ...

....EU leaders have agreed to make “swift” progress on raising the tax bills for digital giants such as Google and Facebook, despite warnings from smaller states that unilateral action could drive business away from Europe. France is pushing for a new way of taxing them on the basis of their turnover – rather than profits – to increase the amount collected from companies accused of paying too little in Europe. ...

.... Members of the Kardashian family, who promote a range of products from “detox” tea to waist-training corsets to their tens of millions of followers, can reportedly command as much as $500,000 (£370,000) per post. But even lower-profile celebrities can make a profit from the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook. ...

....In an interview with the Guardian, Slovenia’s prime minister, Miro Cerar, said he too believed the multinationals had been involved in misleading practices. “I believe sometimes you can clearly see the reasons for such unacceptable practices is simply to gain more profit,” he said. ...

....The news is another unfortunate milestone in a difficult period for G4S, which has faced severe criticism over its management of the two IRCs in the UK. The Guardian revealed this week that both detention centres appeared to make larger profit margins than that agreed with the Home Office. ...

....KPMG said it was donating the equivalent of 40m South African rand (£2. 2m) – the total fees earned from Gupta company work from 2002 – to not-for-profit groups working in education and the anti-corruption sector. ...

....“There seems to be little genuine appetite for a free trade deal from the Brussels bureaucracy, so EU companies are, paradoxically, reliant on the goodwill of UK consumers, who are likely to prefer tariff-free goods in the future from non-EU countries, which are generally in favour of free trade, rather than deals with companies which are subject to the diktat of those who wish to punish the UK,” said Martin. Wetherspoon’s full-year pre-tax profits rose from £80. ...

.... At the grid scale, utilities can measure the benefits of storage and pay for it. As for the Aliso project, the first summer since installation is drawing to a close and the potential blackouts haven’t been an issue, says Dede Subakti, who directs operations-engineering services at the California Independent System Operator, a non-profit that oversees the flow of electricity through California’s grid. ...

.... Calling for “a radical revolution of values”, King concluded: “We must rapidly begin … the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered. ...

.... Yes, it is probably true that the Rock was not insolvent, just suffering an extreme liquidity crisis. After all, the Treasury is set to make a clear profit from the run-off of the mortgage book. ...

.... It’s a term for the trend by which Wall Street and its way of thinking have come to reign supreme in America, permeating not just the financial industry but all American business. It includes everything from the growth in size and scope of the financial sector itself, which creates only 4% of US jobs but takes about a quarter of corporate profits, to the rise in risky, debt-fueled trading, to the way in which businesses in all industries have come to emulate finance, pouring more money into the buying and selling of existing assets, and less into productive investment in things such as research and development or worker training. ...

....”. Rachel Reeves, the Labour MP and chair-elect of the business, energy and industrial strategy committee, said it appeared there could be a “stitch-up between Hermes and Sports Direct to short-change low-paid couriers in order to boost company profits”. ...

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....“With more and more countries implementing the lifesaving measures of the global tobacco treaty and institutions like the UN Global Compact severing ties, one has to wonder if this is simply another attempt by PMI to regain a lost foothold in international and public health arenas. At the very least, this is clearly an attempt to lock in e-cigarettes and other ‘reduced harm’ products as the solution to the public health epidemic that PMI continues to drive and profit from. ...

....In Mount Sassandra, farmers run away at the sight of visitors, aware that their business is illegal. But these farmers are not the ones earning the vast profits to be made from chocolate: many live in poverty, often exploited and underpaid for their crop. ...

....75, which is a significant gap. But one doesn’t know at what price a standalone Sky’s shares would trade – they were 760p before the Murdochs made their move but revenue and profits have barely missed a beat since then. ...

.... An OLED display and the new design is likely to standard on future iPhone models, but Apple must first tackle the challenge of obtaining sufficient supply. “A staggered introduction of OLED technology and the new design enables Apple to steadily ramp up scale in its supply chain and maximise profits. ...

....Demand for sports-led womenswear continues to drive sales at JD Sports Fashion as the company shrugs off fears of a fashion meltdown on the high street. The retail group, which owns Blacks, Millets, Size and Go Outdoors as well as the JD Sports chain, reported a 33% rise in pre-tax profits to £102. ...

.... As the British empire was gaining ascendancy, the Bank was sometimes seen as rapacious and gauche. David Ricardo wrote to John Stuart Mill in 1815: “I think the Bank an unnecessary establishment, getting rich by those profits which fairly belong to the public. ...

....Gail Cartmail, a Unite assistant general secretary, said: “These schemes are clearly not about training, but forcing people into unpaid work. The fact that well-known brands are operating these schemes to boost their profits is especially alarming. ...

.... When the numbers are as horrible as Carillion’s – a colossal £845m provision and net debt that had soared to £695m at the last count – any turnaround plan is bound to require a new bean-counter. Other notable departees include Richard Howson, who was stood down as chief executive after July’s profits warning only to reappear as chief operating officer. ...

....That still leaves the vast majority of people associating charity shops with decline. And with charities under huge pressure over funding, there’s more than £270m at stake for them on UK high streets – that’s how much profit UK charity shops generated in 2015/16 for their parent charities. ...

. One of the UK’s largest recruitment firms is to tear up its 60-year-old structure and become a “social enterprise” with a pay cap and profit-sharing plan, in a move the family who own the company hope will inspire others businesses to follow suit. ...

....I made similar arguments in my book The State We’re In 20 years ago and have attended many such launches ever since, often graced by bishops and some daring business executives prepared to break cover and speak out. It’s the same story of underinvestment; a woeful track record on R&D; overemphasis on high, short-term profits; an incredibly poor record on productivity and stagnating real wages. ...

.... Had he taken on an expert PR, as opposed to a newsroom apprenticeship, newspaper testimonies to his brilliance might have appeared as spontaneously unsought as was Vogue’s “Rose in the Desert” tribute, when Bell “helped” Asma al-Assad. If it expects people not to laugh when Ingham describes it as “overwhelmingly ethical”, the PR industry might want to extend its concept of disrepute beyond Bell Pottinger’s offence and spend a few years evicting members grubbing in London’s profitable reputation laundry, ditto the revolving door that remains as active as it was in 2011, when exposed by Leveson and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. ...

.... Tuesday’s event, with the iPhone 8 the star attraction, will strive to meet investors’ – and customers’ – vaulting expectations. But what will Apple tempt users with to justify Wall Street’s faith in its future profits? An Apple spokesman declined to discuss what will be revealed at the event in the company’s $5bn, spaceship-shaped Cupertino headquarters. ...

.... “Of all the people who ever worked at Hargreaves Lansdown, I never met anyone who was so industrious and talented at the same time,” says Hargreaves. Yiu’s approach to picking investments is to thoroughly research a company and its profit prospects, then fixing a price that he thinks the company’s shares should be worth. ...

....Sports Direct does not have a current share bonus plan for staff after a planned scheme missed its targets. The retailer said last year it would not be paying a bonus under a scheme set to mature in 2019 after underlying profits missed the company’s target of £420m. ...

....John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, said in a statement: “With gun sales dropping steeply, it’s not surprising the NRA leadership and its allies in Congress want to make it easier for gun companies to sell silencers. This legislation would put gun company profits over public safety. ...

....There are also big savings to be made in areas including, commercial, finance, HR and especially printing with Desmond owning a huge operation in Luton. The loss-making magazine operation, which includes the profitable OK!, could be trimmed, with the ailing Star the most likely candidate. ...

....Last year Pukka made a pre-tax loss of £24,000, down from a £233,000 loss the year before. Westwell said the company did not expect to become profitable for another few years but this was part of a five-year plan. ...

....Ending the partnership – which offers savings, credit cards and mortgages through the Post Office brand – and buying the Dublin-based bank’s Post Office assets would cost up to £2bn, according to research from Cass Business School on behalf of the Communication Workers Union. Doing this would help boost profits at the network, removing the need for government money in the long-run. ...

....”. Allegations about the treatment of small businesses in the GRG unit first surfaced in 2013 when Lawrence Tomlinson, a businessman who was an adviser to the then business secretary, Vince Cable, compiled a dossier alleging the bank deliberately wrecked small businesses to make profits. ...

....“For me, this means one thing above all: we are now seeing signs of bubbles in more and more parts of the capital market where we wouldn’t have expected them,” he said. A tightening of monetary policy would help the EU’s banks at a time when US banks are starting to benefit from rising profits. ...

....”. Asda is in the midst of a turnaround plan under the new chief executive, Sean Clarke, who is attempting to arrest falling sales as the supermarket scraps it out with rivals in a price war that has eroded profits. ...

....None of the top management will hold a stake in the business, in a move designed to try and create a separation between its day-to-day running and the shareholders. Bell Pottinger is estimated to be worth about £20m, based on profits of about £4m and revenue of just over £40m. ...

.... Navient says most of the ire stems from structural issues surrounding college finance – like the terms of the loans, which the federal government and private banks are responsible for – not about Navient customer service. Yet during a year-long investigation into who profits off of what has become the largest source of American consumer debt, Fusion TV untangled how Navient has positioned itself to dominate the lucrative student loan industry in the midst of this crisis, flexing its muscles in Washington and increasingly across the states. ...